From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 16:25:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4B214D51 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10mQZk-0007Aw-0A; Tue, 25 May 1999 23:25:36 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id AAA00338; Wed, 26 May 1999 00:24:56 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id XAA17896; Tue, 25 May 1999 23:01:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:01:57 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended Partition access Message-ID: <19990525230156.F277@marder-1> References: <199905252146.RAA91615@cs.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199905252146.RAA91615@cs.rpi.edu>; from David E. Cross on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:46:48PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:46:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > Is it possible to gain access to an extended parition under FreeBSD? > Yes. You can't install FreeBSD on them, but you can access FAT and NTFS "logical drives" in extended partitions. These *always* start at slice 5, irrespective of the number of slices on your disk. e.g. /dev/wd0s5 for the first one, /dev/wd0s6 for the second etc. > -- > David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu > Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 > Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 > I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message